Preliminary Study Of The Reform And Development Of The Existing Wushu Sanda Competition Rules

Sanda is a modern sports event conducted by two contestants who are allowed to use wushu skills such as kicking, blowing, and slamming and relevant defense techniques to carry on barehanded combat. It embodies competitive function and wrestling characteristic in wushu as well as the simpleness, practicality, and popularity in modern fighting event. Moreover, it possesses opposability and deserves our appreciation.Since the experimental start in 1979, sanda has undergone a fast development, and it has initially formed the competitive system including amateur contest, professional contest and vocational contest for the moment. The International Wushu Federation members have increased to 101, making it an all-pervading sport event all over the world. Viewing from the results of sanda VS overseas barehanded combat events, the performance of sanda contestants in the competitions is not optimistic enough. Due to their monotonous techniques and the lag of the technique theory, they achieve success by rapidity and strength. Mostly, they use kicking and blowing in sanda, while slamming is explored whenever there is an opportunity. Separate fighting plays a dominant part, while nearly no skill of "achieving maximum result with minimum effort" is adopted.Nowadays, there are three different rules adapted to the three most important matches in the world, Sanda World Cup, Sanda tournament,and Sanda King.The disunity of the international sanda rules and the national rules is the barrier for sanda to enter the whole world. What's more, some articles in the rules are not explicit enough, including the unclarity of medical supervision, of the classification of women's weight, of the skills of stepping out of the arena and so forth, which restrict the development of sanda. As the guideline and the lever of the contests, competition rules will definitely affect...